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Appendix:Gikun Usage in Meiji Version of Japanese Bible/昆虫

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Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
昆 虫
Grade: S Grade: 1
irregular
Alternative spelling
昆蟲 (kyūjitai)

Etymology edit

Gikun word derived by applying Chinese-derived spelling 昆虫 (“insects”), a term which decomposes into 昆 (“swarm”) + 虫 (“insect, bug”), to native Japanese words はう (hau, “creeping/crawling”) + もの (mono, “thing(s)”).

Noun edit

昆虫 (はうもの)／昆蟲 (はふもの)[1] (haumono) → 這 (は)う物 (もの)、匍 (は)う物 (もの)、 爬 (は)う物 (もの) (ha.u-mono), 昆(こん)虫(ちゅう) (konchū)

  1. creeping things (insects)

Quotations edit

  1. ^ OT, page 1:
    神(かみ)言(いひ)給(たま)ひけるは地(ち)は生物(いきもの)を其類(そのるゐ)に從(したがひ)て出(いだ)し家(か)畜(ちく)と昆蟲(はふもの)と地(ち)の獸(けもの)を其類(そのるゐ)に從(したがひ)て出(いだ)すべしと即(すなは)ち斯(かく)なりぬ
    Kami ii tamaikeru wa chi wa ikimono wo sono rui ni shitagaite idashi kachiku to haumono to chi no kemono wo sono rui ni shitagaite idasubeshi to sunawachi kaku narinu
    And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
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